SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

system_profiler reports on the hardware and software configuration of the
system. It can generate plain text reports or XML reports which can be
opened with System Information.app
Progress and error messages are printed to stderr while actual report
data is printed to stdout. Redirect stderr to /dev/null to suppress
progress and error messages.
The following options are available:
-xml Generates a report in XML format. If the XML report
is redirected to a file with a ".spx" suffix that
file can be opened with System Information.app.
-listDataTypes Lists the available datatypes.
-detailLevellevel Specifies the level of detail for the report:
mini report with no personal information
basic basic hardware and network information
full all available information
-timeout Specifies the maximum time to wait in seconds for
results. If some information is not available within
the specified time limit then an incomplete or par-
tial report will be generated. The default timeout is
180 seconds. Specifying a timeout of 0 means no time-
out.
-usage Prints usage info and examples.

EXAMPLES

system_profiler
Generates a text report with the standard detail level.
system_profiler -detailLevel mini
Generates a short report containing no personal information.
system_profiler -listDataTypes
Shows a list of the available data types.
system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType SPNetworkDataType
Generates a text report containing only software and network data.
system_profiler -xml > MyReport.spx
Creates a XML file which can be opened by System Profiler.app